Dunkertons Cider

Cidery in Charlton Kings, Gloucestershire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
Associated with 2 Venues

Established in 1980

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Dowdeswell Park, London Road, Charlton Kings, GL52 6UT, England
Description
Founded in Herefordshire.
Pressed, fermented, and bottled in Gloucestershire.

Dunkertons history reaches back to 1980 when Ivor and Susie Dunkerton made the decision to escape London and buy a small holding in Pembridge, Herefordshire. They realised that with such a small amount of land they needed to specialise in some form of agriculture and spotted that traditional cider making presented a fantastic opportunity.

In 2014 Ivor and Susie passed Dunkertons to their son Julian and his business partner Bean.

In 2016 the production business relocated to our new state of the art cidery at Dowdeswell Park, Cheltenham.

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5.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5
Bottled@Beer Hunters, Pori. Slightly hazy golden colour, no head. Aroma is apples, herbs and quite much blue cheese. Flavour is very dry wood, apples and some slight notes of blue cheese. Very dry, but at the same time rather boring.
Tried from Bottle on 12 Jan 2009 at 01:05

7.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Bottled. Golden colour, no head. Aroma is apple and blue cheese with some sulphuric notes as well as mild herbs. Flavour is apples with lots of blue cheese and wooden dryness. Quite acidic burn in the throat after drinking.
Tried from Bottle on 12 Jan 2009 at 01:02

5.8/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Bottled. A hazy golden cider. The aroma is sweet apply with a slight acidity. The flavor is acidic with notes of apples and wood, as well as a light note of phenol.
Tried from Bottle on 26 Mar 2008 at 17:40

6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 6.5
[i] [b] Cask, gravity at Merton Winter Beer Festival Feb 08 [/i] [/b] Another one of my Thursday night sneaks. This was a pretty decent Perry and quite interesting to taste alongside the Olivers oak aged whisky Perry, a very pale golden colour with squashed pears on the nose, really quite tasty and a bit punchier than I expected, not quite up there with the Olivers but again this is one thatIi would happily sip again.
Tried from Cask on 19 Feb 2008 at 06:59

5.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Bottle from Waitrose. Golden coloured with minimal head. Dry apple aroma with a touch of yeast. Slightly sweet flavour with a dry finish. Bland.
Tried from Bottle on 22 Jan 2008 at 16:03

5.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Bottled at RBESG. Hazy golden. Dry and cellary, perfectly still. Sweaty, dusty appleskin flavour. Puckering sour. Interesting, but not really good.
Tried from Bottle on 03 Sep 2007 at 02:46

6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 6.5
Botted at RBESG 07. Hazy golden. Sweet and yeasty with bacony smoke, leather and a drying green apple finish. Pretty decent.
Tried on 31 Aug 2007 at 02:07

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Cask at Merton Beer Festival, Oxfordshire, July 7th and 8th 2006. Good appley aroma and a bit earthy as well, pours a paler golden colour than the Breakwell Seedling that was also tried but again tasted extremely good. Lovely and juicy with bags of appley flavour not quite the depth of flavour offered by the Breakwell Seedling but very, very good.
Tried from Cask on 11 Jul 2006 at 07:35

8/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Cask at Merton Beer Festival July 7th, 8th 2006. Beautiful golden colour with a great clarity to it, superbly intense and aromatic rush of apples leads to a simply stunning tasting cider. You could easily convert me to drinking ciders much more regularly if they were all as good as this, yes it was a bit sweet but your mouth was just full of some great fresh appley flavours loved it.
Tried from Cask on 11 Jul 2006 at 02:15

6.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 7
Picked a case up up from Dunkertons Cider mill on one of my regular forays to Herefordshire (retrospectively added from diary notes) Golden colour, oaky aroma and a bit musty wonderful crisp appley bite. Found this to be on the drier side of medium dry with barely any sweetness but a most refreshing cider all the same.
Tried on 03 Jul 2006 at 08:43